“Kashah alay preidatchem.” After all this time of repentance and introspection and realignment, God says — listen, here’s what I really care about: what most upsets Me is separation in all its forms, separation from Me, separation from each other and separation from your own selves. (Cick image to read more)
SHORT ESSAY: Shemini Atzeret and God’s Yearning for Unity (Shemini Atzeret) Read More »
We each have a pure soul that partakes at all times of another world, even as we live in this one. Shemini Atzeret is the holiday of this other world. As the eighth day of Sukkot and yet a holiday unto itself, it epitomizes “eighthness,” the quality of being beyond the world that was created
SHORT ESSAY: The Otherworldly Part of Us (Shemini Atzeret) Read More »
Moshe never gets there. The Torah ends and neither Moshe nor the people have gotten there. This is important, this not getting there. (Click image to read more)
TALK: On Living in a Circle (Simchat Torah) Read More »